Word: screen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Within the Law. A miracle has come to pass. Within the Law has been adapted for the screen minus the emendations and Hollywood inspirations usually deemed necessary to cinematize a play or story. The result is exactly what intelligent people (a pitifully meagre group when one reflects that 4,000,000 attend pictures daily in America) have so long prophesied: Within the Law is not only consistently interesting, but it is convincing. This may, but probably will not, prove to a few of the commercial directors that it is actually profitable to leave the original dramatist to his own devices...
...Rood Screens. A reminder of pre-Reformation days was discovered in rebuilding Noyon Cathedral. The shell scarred floors were removed recently, revealing the foundations of an ancient jubé, or rood screen. In olden days the jubé was a very heavy wall separating the chancel from the choir and nave, and from a tribune on top of this wall a cleric read the Gospel and Epistle. The rood screens of today serve to ornament the church rather than to separate the clergy from the laity...
Married. Marguerite E. House (screen name Marjorie Daw), 21, motion picture actress, to Alfred Edward Sutherland, 26, Chaplin's assistant director, in Los Angeles...
MERTON OF THE MOVIES-Super-films and their makers satirized from the inside, with Glenn Hunter doing the best work of his career as the naively pathetic hero who learned " screen-art" by correspondence...
MERTON OF THE MOVIES-Glenn Hunter as a movie-struck youth, whose loftiest screen ambitions turn out to be gall and Hollywood. A skillful satire on the eighth art, in which unconscious comedy proves to be the essence of pathos...